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...official website of the Department of Tourism both promises and delivers. Offering useful travel tips and an exhaustive list of places to go, it also has a fun trivia section perfect for predeparture dinner conversations. Example: the yo-yo, which means "come back" in Tagalog, is Philippine in origin...
...class suburbs that ring the country’s major cities. Constantly faced with anti-immigrant bias and unemployment rates well over 50 percent, many young Africans and Arabs of the younger generation often feel alienated from the larger society and the country of their parent’s origin. Consequently, the problems of France’s ghettos have come to resemble those of America’s inner cities: drugs, violence, gang culture, crime and family disintegration...
...current Latino population in the U.S. is more than 35 million. And the Bureau of Census has reported that by 2050 one-quarter of those living in the country will be of Latino origin...
...King's biggest concern may be how Israel's recent military action suddenly rekindled tensions between his subjects of Palestinian origin, who make up two-thirds of Jordan's 5.2 million people, and the so-called East Bankers of Bedouin stock who form the backbone of Hashemite rule. Protests in support of Yasser Arafat led to attacks on cars and shops, making East Bankers worried they were losing control. Upset that Abdullah refused to break relations with Israel, Palestinians in refugee camps pelted Jordanian police with rocks and taunts of being "Jews" loyal to Israel...
Keith makes sure to note that he’s never asked anyone to stop sharing his words. “If [people using them] don’t know who wrote them I’ll tell them the origin,” he says, but he considers it in general to be a huge compliment. The commandments, he points out, can be useful to just about anyone searching for personal meaning. “The search for success and the search for meaning are very different things,” he says. “But it?...